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Re: Sony cdu33a slow installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete)
Mon Oct 26 05:27:19 1998
From: "Pete" <plaven@idl.net.au>
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 21:26:40 +1100
Reply-to: plaven@idl.net.au
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> Patrice Hamelin wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a PC like so:
> > - 486 DX/2-50
> > - 8 Megs of RAM
>
> 8mb of memory is barely enough, and bound to be very slow.
> Try increasing the memory as much as you can.
I'd just like to add that I have been running linux here on an 8 meg
machine, was a 486sx33, and now a dx2/66 still with 8 meg.
While it's not the fastest thing around, it's a great use of old
hardware that just couldn't run the likes of NT. I'm running just
about everything on this machine and the only thing I can
categorically state is, hispeed comms on a 16450 is not the best,
I'm currently hunting down a 16550 or better for it though.
I'm running samba, I have 4*200 meg SCSI disks in RAID1, using it
as a print server, news and email are RSN. Sure it's a home LAN
and the load isn't great, but if not for linux the hardware would have
been chucked.
Pete
In a world with out fences, who needs Gates?
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